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Well, mdd, I said that I don’t have the chutzpah to presume to know what is right in the situation I brought. You obviously do presume to know. I will leave you to your presumption, but enough with setting up the straw man – I said I wasn’t determining halocho, so I wasn’t bringing emotions into a determination I wasn’t making.
(BTW, that’s kind of an amateurish method of discourse. You are a smart individual, I have seen it in other threads. You can do better than that)
Two more things. You said “Do not bring emotions and wrong ones at that…” While one can and should certainly assign right and wrong to actions, and indeed our value system is predicated on actions in the form of mitzvos and aveiros, it is much less useful to describe emotions as right and wrong – meaning it is way more useful to describe them as constructive or destructive, in that they help you to do mitzvos or they hinder you. But no one is so perfect that they don’t Feel emotions, destructive ones, that they have to overcome, and even if they end up doing the right thing, the initial emotion that stirred them to action may not have been constructive, but not necessarily wrong.
Lastly, I have to ask – have you ever asked a Rov a shailah about an issue involving sholom bayis, or extended family? Have you ever seen the delicate negotiations that sometimes happen with donors to shuls and schools when something is being donated and named? Have you thought that in the parsha of accepting or declining admitting a child to a school, in all of these issues, emotions of course play apart in the tshuvo or psak you are going to get. To assume otherwise as you did is a tendentious assertion.